Star Trek: Disvery Casts a Gay Character and a New Alien

Contents:

• 6 STAR TREK ACTORS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY IN REAL LIFE!
• WHICH ACTORS OM STAR TREK ARE GAY?
• STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTS A GAY CHARACTER AND A NEW ALIEN
• GAY 'STAR TREK' CHARACTER PROVOK POLARIZG RPONSE
• STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
• STAR TREK: DISVERY STS 3 ACTORS, ADDS GAY CHARACTER

6 STAR TREK ACTORS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY IN REAL LIFE!

Together, they play the science fictn anchise’s first regularly appearg gay uple aboard the U. And of urse, they'll be fans who say, ‘”Oh, they’re killg off the gays aga! Ennis: As a pneer Star Trek, terms of beg an out gay man, playg a gay character, a relatnship wh another man, do you see that the unfoldg of havg non-bary characters like Adira and a trans character, even a ghostly versn, how do that make you feel terms of the craft and and our muny?

6 Star Trek Actors You Didn’t Know Were Gay In Real Life!

WHICH ACTORS OM STAR TREK ARE GAY?

But what if you get to know that some of the actors who you thought straight are actually gay?! Actor Wilson Cz, an out gay actor who is one of the stars of Paramount+’s Star Trek: Disvery streamg seri, is addrsg for the last time an outpourg of outrage over an anti-gay slur directed at him last week.

8, someone seated at the outdoor venue lled the actor a homophobic word as he was walkg out onto the stage.

STAR TREK: DISVERY CASTS A GAY CHARACTER AND A NEW ALIEN

At least one fan claims that the person who said the anti-gay slur was a woman, and that someone seated next to this person got up and left disgt, but that acunt has not been rroborated. Hugh Culber, an out gay man a mted relatnship, said he cid to ignore the slur and foc on his reason for beg there: Celebratg the very diverse st of Disvery, which boasts eight out LGBTQ actors. Hundreds of Star Trek fans as well as followers of Cz’s social media acunt rpond wh anger on Twter, sayg homophobia is a ntradictn of the show’s philosophy.

GAY 'STAR TREK' CHARACTER PROVOK POLARIZG RPONSE

“My attu toward homosexualy has changed, ” he told The Humanist 1991.

I have, over many years, changed my attu about gay men and women. Even after his ath, took another 28 years for the first gay character to appear Star Trek’s televisn seri (although y, novel tie-s, ics, fan works, and other non-nonil media featured a markedly improved number of LGBT Starfleet officers).

STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T

Given that the first openly gay recurrg character on televisn wouldn’t appear until the edy Soap 1977 (and played by Billy Crystal, so not exactly a nuanced character portrayal), pictg one the ‘60s when Star Trek first aired would have been unthkable to most people. Of urse, much of what Star Trek did to highlight actors and characters of different ethnic backgrounds would have been pretty far-fetched for many televisn dienc of the time, too – so what ma gay stori different at the time? But still others were spired – enough that Kirk and Spock’s endurg nnectn to one another has remaed a potent symbol of homosexual love for Trek fans.

STAR TREK: DISVERY STS 3 ACTORS, ADDS GAY CHARACTER

Durg a 20th anniversary nventn 1986, show creator Gene Rodnberry was asked by a foundg member of a Boston LGBT science fictn group (lled, charmgly, the Gaylaxian Network) whether or not the recently announced The Next Generatn would troduce gay characters to Starfleet.

We should probably have a gay character. That same year, Gerrold (who’s bt known for wrg the TOS episo “The Trouble Wh Tribbl”) began workg on a script which revolved around two gay characters beg afflicted by an curable, tergalactic blood disease that mirrored the spread of HIV.

Dpe this, Rodnberry still seemed mted to makg good on his promise to the Gaylaxians, who by 1990 had begun a letter-wrg petn (spurred partly by Gerrold’s stori of his episo’s mise at var nventn appearanc).